1-1     By:  Staples                                           S.B. No. 923
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2001; February 27, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     March 19, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 19, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the prosecution of the offense of fraudulent
 1-9     destruction, removal, or concealment of a universal product code.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 32.47, Penal Code, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (b)  For purposes of this section, "writing" includes:
1-14                 (1)  printing or any other method of recording
1-15     information;
1-16                 (2)  money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards,
1-17     badges, trademarks;
1-18                 (3)  symbols of value, right, privilege, or
1-19     identification; and
1-20                 (4)  universal product codes, labels, price tags, or
1-21     markings on goods.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-23     to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-24     An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
1-25     covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and
1-26     the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.  For
1-27     purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
1-28     effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred
1-29     before that date.
1-30           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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